I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.

I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.

My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies on TV. I was always really attracted to comics.

I think, though, the biggest heroes in my life would have been both my mother and father. My father because he was very brave and a kid from the Depression. And my mother, a child from the Depression too, who always remained so lovely her whole life.

I always say that you can't be afraid to ask the question. What's the worst that could happen? The answer could be "no" and you go on.

Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house.

I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.